Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-04-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

without a rival.
MRS. ELIZABETH billiard, of Iowa, Mrs.
Margaret Arnold, OF ONO, and Mrs. Susan
Bailey of Oak ia. are sisters. The first is
~ years old, the second 1903. and the third w,
making a total of 3l7 years for these three re-
markable woman.
MRS. MARY CUNNINGHAM, of Bucksport,
Me-. is u strong anti tobacconst. She used
the weed for siXty-three years, but since
she stopped, not long ago, she says she feels
like girl again, and she wishes that sue
had stopped long ago.
SOME ingenious soul connected with the
Unitarian Monday Club, of Boston. has IN
vented an apparatus designed TO give
speakers at public meetings a hint that their
time ha~ expired 1t is simply q three minute
glass, and when its sands have run down an
automatic bell strikes sharply and the speaker
ceases.
DURING r severe storm recently at Hecla,
Pa, large 1ocks of wild geese and ducks fly
ing northward were driven down, and then
were attracted by the light of the coke ovens.
Many birds fell upon the ovens ami foundered
around, dazed by the light or spged by the
heat. and about ten swans and twenty ducks
were captured.
A GIFTED Pacific Coast reporter has coined
the word 'juguate" to describe the act of
man who cuts his throat And this is the
way he. Will now chronicle such items of
news: 1--WE regret to announce that Mr.. John
Smith Juguated himself last night The
jugulatIOn resulted fatally this morning, and
our beautiful cemetery will soon have one
more tenant"
IN Yell county, Ark, last week, Mrs.
Sarah Dimnltt was riding along the road
with her little boy behind her, and in passing
burning tree saw that it was going to fan
across the road. She screamed and the hOrsa
stopped still, when, quick as lightning she
jumped off, snatched her child ana got out of
he way just as the tree came crashing down
across the saddle, killing The horse instantly.
THE Tom Ri-Jon family, now residing in
Jersey City, Is supplied with striking names.
The oldest boy is called Retaliation, and an
other rejoces in the name of Avenger. These
titles were bestowed when the father was IN
carcerated in Boston jail for peddhpg the
Lunatlc. When he started the Volcano the
names Of newborn children were suggestive
OF the paper. One was christened Nesuvius
and the other Etna.
THERE recently died in Alexandria, Va,
an old man who had long carried on, in
small wav, the jewery business. A commits
sion appointed to examine lnto his affairs
found in his dilapdated house where he had
lived with his aged wife an old iron safe, and
in 1t were $4,000 In money and over 200
watches. The widow was entirely surprise d,
ana so were the nelghbOrs. who alWa ys
thought the old couple to be very poor.
''POGoNIP" is said to be the name given by
mountaineers of Nevada to a sort of frozen
fog that appears sometimes in winter, even
on the clearest and brightest of days. In an
instant the air is filed with floating needles of
ice, 10 breathe the pogOnip is death to the
lungs. When it comes people rush to cover.
The Indians dread it as much as the whites.
IL appears to be caused by the sudden freez-
ing in the air of the moisture which collects
about the SUBMITS of the high peaks.
JAMES GILES, who has just died at Cory
don, Ind, at the age of 81 years, was the frat
man to manufacture hats in Southern Indi-
ana. He had served four terms as Sheriff,
knew Gen. William Henry Harrison well, and
served as q scout unuer him in the war of
1Sl2. He was resident of Corydon when the
Territorial and State capital was at that
town; was the personal and political friend of
GOV. Posey, Gov. Jennings, and Gov. Hem
bricks, the first three Governors of the State.
APRoPos of the real estate boom in the
West, they tell in Kansas City of man who
offered another $1,000 for a parcel of land
The owner accepted the otter and the buyer
handed out a silver dollar to bind the bar
gain and afterward gave notes for three, six
and nine months Before the first note be-
came due he mad sold more than enough of
the land to take up all Of the notes. and up to
date he has realized more than 500 200 from
the sale of lots, and still owns half of the
original parcel.
A PHILADELPHIA PAPER gives the result of
some official calculations recently made.
Pennsylvania before mining commenced was
$4,000 square miles, and, allowing LOCO tons
To the acre, foot IN depth would give 32O,-
100000 tons; then, assuming the depth 10
average 30 feet, grand total appears OF
$500 100000 tons. AT the present time the
consumption averages abOuG 30 ,00O. 900 tons a
year-thus at the commencement of mining
operations the supply Was sufficient for $50
years.
NINE. CHRISTINE NILSSON, now Countess
Coe Ha inf
ger that she would have trouble from two
causes-hre and lunatics. This prediction
was verified, for, during the Chicago fire, she
lost $40, ZOO, and when Boston was Durnt ne r
loss was s2JO,oo0. In New YORK some We RS
ago crazy man followed her for a week be-
lieving that the words addressed by "Margue-
rite" to Faust were intended for himself
In Chicago poor student decided to marry
her, and wrote passionate letters, to which he
received no answer. One day he came in a
superb sleigh, drawn by four horses to take
his atianced bride to the church. Mr.. Jarrett
quoted MIN by saying; You are late. Nile.
third insane person was her husband. Mr.
ROuZeaud, who died in an asylum.
a RESIDENT of the rural districts was visit
ing Boston for the purpose of seeing the
sights. The noon hour found HIM on fremont
Row gazing into the shop windows as he
lelsurey passed along. 1t was APPROACHING
the time for the regular noon prayer meeting
Young Mems Christian Association and as
usual "a member of that excellent BODY wa.
upon the sidewalk inviting the passers-bv 10
enter and participate IN the services. AS the
coun ryman came up and halted by the 10 n,
the young man tapped him upon the shoulder
and shld: "Slep right upstairs, my frienu
you Will lind cordial welcome" NO Won
DON'T says Mr.. Rusticus, "Yer can't pIay
any OF yer confidence games on me- I've
heard tell too much about YOU fellars to he
caught before uein' IN the city two hOurs."
THE average American at home or abroad
does not take kindly to anything that would
seem to cast the shadow of a shade upon his
native land. A story told last evening at the
r chmOnd Avenue Methodist EplsconaI
church by The Rev. George W. Peck might o
CIted in iluhtr ItiOn. An Engiishman was
travelling through Italy with an American
friend, and IN the course Of their soiournIn.s
each maintained the superiorlty OF ms ovAn
country. Finally the grand spectacle Of
Mount Nesuvlus in eruption, throwing its
brilliant rays across the bay OF Naples hurst
upon their astonished gaze. snow, look at
that" chucKled the Englishman. .svo,,
haven't got anything in America that can
come anywhere near that" NO" moodilv
replied the Yankee, 1t Is true we have not
got a Neeuvius, but we have got a waterfall
lhat cou q put That thing out In less than i've
minutes"
A STRANGE adventure happened recently
on board OF the schooner Lucy L. Harvey.
which was sailing from Port Prince TO Phila-
dalnhta The achnanar UNA ,,anaod -